Quotes About Adulthood

It's a Secret of Adulthood: Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.)

Bur surely Rebels eventually realize that we can't just do whatever we want - adults can'ts act that way. Adults can act that way, and Rebels do act that way. For better or worse.

As a child I loved what can be seen, as a teenager what can be felt, as a man I no longer love anything.

cuando somos niños oímos y soñamos, albergamos ideas a medio cuajar y, cuando al hacernos hombres intentamos recordar, nos vemos estorbados y convertidos en seres prosaicos por el veneno de la vida.

It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 — but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.

el hecho de que incluso esta autoridad prepolítica que regía las relaciones entre adultos y niños, profesores y alumnos, ya no sea firme significa que todas las metáforas y modelos antiguamente aceptados de las relaciones autoritarias han perdido su carácter admisible.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It's your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn't mean they bought the rest of your life.

I didn't finish high school. I tried to as an adult, but with all this touring, I had to quit.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be an adult at the age of 8 or 9. I never did kid stuff, so to speak, so I was in many ways ostracized by the other kids. But I did get this other life, so it was a trade-off.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.